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Welcome to our March Newsletter. We are getting situated in our new headquarters, finished 2008 as our busiest year yet, and sincerely appreciate all of the new customer relationships formed over the past year. 
I recently attended the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg Germany. Our German distributor, QASystems, represented the Vector Software products. The number of vendors and the number of attendees both were comparable to previous years, which was great to see taking into account the current economic climate. A show like that is a great place to renew contacts, form new customer relationships, and be able to visit with most of our European and Asian distributors. While walking through the development tools pavilion, it was apparent to me that other tool vendors are recognizing the importance of software testing to the embedded development process. It seemed that most of the booths mentioned "software test" somewhere on their display. Also, there were several compiler vendors with new test solutions for both static and dynamic testing. We perceive this emergence of other test tools as a positive development for our company, since it raises the awareness and demand in the development community for automated test solutions. I mentioned to a colleague that I was glad that Vector Software had a fifteen-year head-start building embedded test tools.
Enjoy the soon to be arriving spring weather.
Bill McCaffrey
Director of Marketing
Latest News
Vector Software Announces the formal release of VectorCAST 5.0
Version 5.0 Highlights
Stub-by-function
The stubbing of functions can now be dynamically controlled on a per-test case
basis. This means that you can create test cases for a function, and in one test case have a dependent
function stubbed, while in another test case, the real code will be used. This feature does not require any
rebuilding or recompilation of the test environment, and is available even for functions defined in the file or
the C++ class that is under test. This allows testing to be performed on one individual function in complete
isolation from its dependent functions.
Global Data Filtering
The test case editor has been enhanced to allow relationships between functions
and global variables to be displayed. When the global data filtering is enabled only the objects referenced
by that function will be displayed in the editor. Additionally, clicking on a function will highlight all of the
global variables that are used by that function, similarly, clicking on a global variable, will highlight all of
the functions that reference that variable.
CSV Data Editor
A new comma-separated-value (CSV) data editor has been added to allow test case
construction from CSV files created by modeling tools or Excel spreadsheets. The editor provides the ability
to open CSV files in a spreadsheet view, and map columns onto data items in the test environment by
simply dragging and dropping cells onto the test case editor tree. The resultant map file can then be used
to automatically create a test case for each row of data in the CSV file.
See the full press release.
Click here for Release Notes and new features in VectorCAST 5.0.
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Customer Success Stories
Union Switch & Signal, Inc. (US&S), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ansaldo STS,
is a world leader in safety critical train control systems. US&S embedded systems
for on-board control of trains and wayside signaling/control must pass rigorous
software testing standards including CENELEC EN-50127, EN-50128, and EN-50129
and standards dictated by customers.
US&S's use of VectorCAST/C++ as part of the embedded software lifecycle has been
instrumental in achieving SIL-4 standards and satisfying independent software safety assessors. (See the customer reference poster.)
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Tool Tips
Q1 - How can we have a static port that allows remote users to check out licenses?
By default, FLEXlm just grabs an available port...
Q2 - How do I add a function prototype to an environment build without having to create or add a file?
You can use Unit Appendix User code to add...
Q3 - How can I create a .bat file with needed settings to start VectorCAST?
In order to create a quick launch batch script that will start VectorCAST with all of settings needed...
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Events
Vector Software to attend Real-Time & Embedded Conference on March 17, 2009 in Dallas, TX - US.
Vector Software to attend Real-Time & Embedded Conference on March 19, 2009 in Austin, TX - US.
Vector Software to attend Real-Time & Embedded Conference on April 14, 2009 in Chicago, IL - US.
Vector Software to attend Real-Time & Embedded Conference on April 16, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN - US.
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